audioman58
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| Any thoughts on Denafrips Terminator Plus I have heard the terminator vs the terminator + theterminstor is a excellent sounding very natural sounding dac especially after this new processor board was implemented thst too allowshigh dsd files.he plus has bigger power supplies ,and even be... | |
| Analog or Digital and why? A lot has to do with Who mixes the recording ,For example Alan Parsons did a lot for the Beatles and they sound very respectable, also good companies and single miked recordings make big difference and use Vacuum tube recording stations.a record c... | |
| Analog or Digital and why? Totally disagree digital can be better then analog R2R dacs sound very analog dcs their own code is great,msb, Metrum, the best value and is best value per dollar is Denafrips.i just bought the latest Pontus great natural sound li sold my Schiit Y... | |
| Any thoughts on Denafrips Terminator Plus I sold the latest Schiit yggs for the Denafrips Pontus the Venus is also a great deal $2800 the Pontus sound more natural and flowing imothe bass is a bit better on the bottom end with the Yggs that is it . And there are 4 rows of 1% or less mat... | |
| kinki dac vs denafrips pontus The Pontus soundly beat the orchid ,as well as Brooklyn+ I compared them directly ,knowing parts very well just loook at the massive banks of rubicon capacitirs ,then 2 big Torroidal transformers and power supplies under that and a a Linear supply... | |
| Pure Audio Lotus 5 DAC Put a good quality power cord on it and put in a good fuse . I heard my friends and it has different settings which you can alter the perspective a bit which is very good . The Schiit yggs gets a lot of great press in my system it did not mesh I ... | |
| USB sucks I beg to differ Schiit Audio New unison usb is even better then Bnc,or Spidif I compared several cables in the $500 range and even less the Unison USBcard was clearly more resolved and natural sounding .this new card does take around 200 hours to... | |
| Mills MRA two types of different brand ? For Loudspeakers Path Audio best anything including Duelund ,Mills or anything in between $30 each but less then 1% distortion I only use the in my speakers now . | |
| Mills MRA two types of different brand ? Not totally True ,even before 2011 Mills had black and brown finishes which I have personally used both the same quality. Jeff at Sonic craft states this on the website . The 2011 to present say Mexico and for whatever reason are not quite as prec... | |
| Should a reference speaker be neutral, or just great sounding? good detail imaging ,soundstaging is essential . the tonal balance the internal voiced Xover network will dictate how nuetral or tonal balance . A lot depends how much $$ you have to spend .i prefer to buy used save at least 50%+ and then rebuild... | |
| USB sucks I find the latest usb to be very good with Mac,Linux,Windows 10Schiit Audio dedicated New usb unison card is as good or better then spdif,or bnc,if your cable is of high quality | |
| The Synergistic Research Orange Fuse ... Further thoughts. Your sourse components do first ,since the music starts there it is the most critical part of the chain.nobody speaks of runin time Synergistic says 2-300 hours. 100 hours brings it over 90% always should if possible Go to a bit bigger size for t... | |
| Ayre QB9 Dac . Upgrade to the new QB20. Vs competition In the $4-5k range or less docknow I put in the new unison usb card 2 x it would not worki already have a Jcat femtocard inmy computer for usb withalinear power supply to it, the unison usb card , when they come out with aanalog 3 then maybe I will get it the orange fuse ma... | |
| Ayre QB9 Dac . Upgrade to the new QB20. Vs competition In the $4-5k range or less Since thestock fuse can vary 20% iput in a 1.25 amp slow blow.Inth3 yggs | |
| Ayre QB9 Dac . Upgrade to the new QB20. Vs competition In the $4-5k range or less I have not heard the AyreCodex |